Publications and Presentations

Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., and Singh, V. (2019). Scenarios of Technology Use to Promote Community Engagement: Overcoming Marginalization and Bridging Digital Divides in the Southern and Central Appalachian Rural Libraries. Information Processing & Management (Special Issue: Marginalized Communities, Emerging Technologies, and Social Innovation in the Digital Age. Edited by Jia Tina Du, Iris Xie, and Jenny Waycott). (URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102129).

Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., and Singh, V. (2019). Scenarios of Health Engagement Experiences and Health Justice in Rural Libraries. International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (Special Issue: Health Justice, Part I. Edited by Beth St. Jean, Gagan Jindal, Yuting Liao, and Paul T. Jaeger), 3(3), 56-87. (URL: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/article/view/32963/25305).

Mehra, B., Singh, V., and Sikes, E. S. (under preparation). A Domain-Based Framework of Community Engagement in Rural Libraries. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy.

Singh, V., Mehra, B., and Sikes, E. S. (under preparation). Agriculture-Based Community Engagement in Rural Libraries. Libri International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies.

Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., and Singh, V. (under preparation). Strategic Actions and a Roadmap to Further Engagement in Rural Libraries. Libri International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies.

Mehra, B., Singh, V., and Sikes, E. S. (2019). A Model of Community-Engaged Scholarship Across “Institutional Borders” to Assess the Role of Rural Libraries in Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachia. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the 2019 Canadian Association for Information Science/L’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI): Information Studies in the World: Conversations Across Institutional Boundaries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 3-5, 2019.

Mehra, B., Sikes, E., S., and Singh, V. (2019/forthcoming). An Exploratory GIS Prototype to Map Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachian Rural Libraries (poster paper). Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology ASIS&T 82^nd Annual Meeting, October 19-23, 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

Mehra, B. (2019/forthcoming). Impact-Driven Shifts in Information Research: Actualities and Potentialities (abstract, panelist). [Panel title: Paradigm Shift in Information Research; R. Tang, B. Mehra, J. T. Du, and Y. Zhao]. Proceedings of the 82^nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2019.

Mehra, B., Albright, K., and Du, J. T. (2019/forthcoming). President-Elect’s International Incubator: Transformational Actions Using Information to Advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Proceedings of the 82^nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2019.

Mehra, B. (2019/forthcoming). Engaging Master’s Students in Publishing on Diversity, Social Justice ,and Advocacy (forthcoming). (extended abstract). [Panel title: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing with Master’s Students: The Importance of Scholarly Publishing for Global Information Professionals]. Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference: Exploring Learning in a Global Information Context, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 24-26, 2019.

Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., and Singh, V. (2019). Scenarios of Health Engagement Experiences and Health Justice in Rural Libraries. Medical Library Association Conference: Elevate, Chicago, Illinois, May 3-8, 2019.

Mehra, B. (2019). Engaged Scholarship to Further Social Justice and Transform Rural Communities in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region (paper title). Libraries as Community Anchors: Transforming Rural Communities (panel title). Annual Conference of the Texas Library Association, Austin, TX, April 15-18, 2019.

Mehra, B. (2019). Diversifying Engaged Scholarship to Further Social Justice in the Rural Southern and Central Appalachian Region, 10th Annual Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium, University of Alabama, February 28 – March 1, 2019.

Mehra, B. (2019). A Model of Engaged Scholarship to Further Diversity, Social Justice, and Community Impact: Building Bridges Across Boundaries. 41^th Annual Research Symposium College of Communication and Information University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, February 11, 2019.

Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., and Singh, V. (2018). Information Technology Use Behaviors of Community-Engaged Rural Librarians: A Future beyond the Theory-Practice Discourse to Integrate Impact (short paper), 2018 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Moving Toward the Future of Information Behavior Research and Practice, Vancouver, Canada, November 10, 2018.

Mehra, B., Singh, V., Sikes, E. S. (2018). Assessment of Rural Library Professionals’ Role in Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region: Mobilization from Change Agents to Community Anchors (CA2CA@SCA-RL) (Works-In-Progress Poster). Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference: The Expanding LIS Education Universe, Denver, Colorado, February 6-9, 2018.

Mehra, B., Singh, V., Sikes, E. S. (2018). Assessment of Rural Library Professionals’ Role in Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region: Mobilization from Change Agents to Community Anchors (CA2CA@SCA-RL) (Poster). 40th Annual CCI Research Symposium, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, February 14, 2018. URL: . [Previously Presented].

Mehra, B. (2019/forthcoming). Social Justice and Community Engagement (panelist). Special Interest Group Information Seeking and Use (SIG USE), Association for Information Science and Technology ASIS&T 82^nd Annual Meeting, October 19-23, 2019, Melbourne, Australia.